About the Authors

Sonu Bhatnagar

Contributed equally to this work with: Sonu Bhatnagar, Sten Westgard

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sonu.bhatnagar@abbott.com (SB); westgard@westgard.com (SW)

Affiliation Transfusion Medicine, Abbott Laboratories, Singapore, Singapore

Sten Westgard

Contributed equally to this work with: Sonu Bhatnagar, Sten Westgard

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

sonu.bhatnagar@abbott.com (SB); westgard@westgard.com (SW)

Affiliation Westgard QC, Inc., Madison, WI, United States of America

Nguyen Thi Thanh Dung

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, National Blood Center, Ha Noi, Vietnam

Tran Ngoc Que

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, National Blood Center, Ha Noi, Vietnam

Bach Quoc Khanh

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, National Blood Center, Ha Noi, Vietnam

Nguyen Ha Thanh

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, National Blood Center, Ha Noi, Vietnam

Competing Interests

Sten Westgard is an employee of Westgard QC who is consulting partner for broad range of IVD companies. Sonu Bhatnagar is an Abbott employee and company shareholder. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Rest of the authors have no conflict of interest to declare.